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Christmas at 
McCarthy'^s 



GUP TILL 



PAINE PUBLISHING CO. 
DAYTON, OHIO 



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WE HOPE YOU'VE BROUGHT YOUR SMILES ALONG. A 

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Paine Publishing Company - - Dayton, Ohio 



Christmas at McCarthy's 



BY 



ELIZABETH F. GUPTILL 

Author of "Christmas at Punkin Holler," 
"A Topsy Turvy Christmas," Etc. 



Copyright, 1916 

PAINE PUBLISHING ^COM^ANY 

Dayton, Ohio 






C,K 



Cast of Characters 

Patrick McCarthy, the most important man in the "tinement" 
Bridget McCarthy ---___ His Wife 
Mr. Opperman - - -- - - - A Jew 

Mrs. Opperman -__-__ His Wife 

Lars ---___-_a Swede 

Mrs. Chloe Washington _ _ _ _ _ Colored 

Mrs. Ferrari _______ Italian 

Mr. Strauss - - - - - - -Elsie's father, a German 

Elsie - - - - - i - "Tinement" Orphan 

Jimmie - - - - - - - The News Boy 

Patsy 
Katie 

POMPEY 

Connie 

Cleopatra 

Mickey 

Caesar 

LuiGi 

Carlotta 

Hilda 

Tony 



Other Children of the "Tinement" 



' ©dA447872 

OEe-l 1916 



Christmas at McCarthy's 

SCENE I. 

{Setting — The sidezmlk outside of "Murphy's Tinement." Have 
a couple of lozv, zvide steps, if possible. The children are gathered 
on and around these steps. Use plenty of children — as many as 
convenient. Small children from two to six or seven may be used 
as little brothers and sisters to those who have the speaking parts. 
As curtain rises, some of the children are playing ''Button, button," 
on the lowest step, and others are playing "Hop-scotch" at one side. 
The smallest ones hug dilapidated dollies, rolled up from rags. One 
has a small zvheel, such as might have been on a little cart, once. 
Enter Jimmy and Elsie — hurry along to group.) 

Katie — ^Sold out so soon? 

Jimmy — Ivery blissid paper av thim. Sure, 'twas the swate face 
of Ilsie did it. I do be a thinkin'. An' iver}^ sowl that bought a 
paper, ahiiost, axed quistions about her. Guess they thought she 
was a high-born leddy, and me a stealthy, crapy kidnapper. Shure, 
an' she got a foine chanst to be a leddy, and she wouldn't take it, 
at all, at all ! Think av that, now ! 

Connie — How could she get a chanst to be a ledd}^, when she's 
jist a bit av a colleen? 

Cleopatra — Ah reck'n he means to be quality. Did some quality 
lady wanter stole yer, honey chile? 

Elsie — Lady wanted to take me 'way fum Jimmy. She said, fere 
was mine mutter dat her let me does papers to sell? And I wasn't 
selling dose papers at all! Jimmy was selling 'em. And I telled 
her mine mutter was to Himmel gone, and mine fader was all 
loss, and — 

Jimmy — And she wanted to take her home to be her little gel, 'n 
whin I said we couldn't spare the sunny face av her, she tried to 
wheedle her away ! Bad 'cess to her ! 

Elsie — And she said I wasn't -Jimmy's little sister at all, she did! 

Jimmy — And she axed, she did, as purry as a cat, could we afford 
to kape a growin' choild that didn't belong to us, and I says to her, 
says I, 'Tlsie belongs to the whole tinement, that she does !" And 
she axed how that was, and I told her how Mrs. Ferrari slapes her, 
and Mrs. Omstrom ates her, and Aunt Bridget washes her, and 



CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 

Mrs. Washington minds her, and Mr. Opperman buys her bit 
clothes, and you girls kape her tid}^, and I buy her hair ribbins, and 
she laughed, and called her a communerty orphin. 

Elsie — And I telled her I. wasn't no orfing, I was Jimmy's little 
•sister, and she laughed some more, and she said I was pretty, and 
she gaved me this, (shozvs quarter.) 

MiCKY^ — ^Begorra, what a lot av money! It's a capitalist ye'll be 
afther being, like the Rocky feller. 

Jimmy — And thin,bedad, she began to wheedle, and she promised 
her foine drisses, and a babby doll, and a cab to wheel it in, and 
iverything ye could think about, and more, too, begorry. And thin 
if she didn't up and offer her a Christmas tree! 

Katie — A Christmas tree ! Why didn't she offer her the earth, 
with a noice little pick fince around it? And* ye wouldn't lave us 
for a Christmas tree, Elsie darlint? 

Elsie- — "No," I said, "Jimmy will bu}' me a Christmas tree a'reddy. 

Mickey — Like fun he will! Does she think Jimmy's a millionair? 

Jimmy — And she asked where did we live, and I said, "over at the 
South side," says I, and I mutters "over the lift" to mesilf and says 
she, "I'm a coming to see yer mother," she says. And says I, wid 
the face av me as sober as a praste, "Me mither's me ant, for the 
rale mither av me's over in Ould Oirland in a churchyard, where 
she's been iver since jist before I was born, or jist afther, I forgit 
which, its so long ago." 

Elsie^ — And she laughed, and said she was going to haf her pretty 
bab}^ yet a'retty, but I won't with that lady go. I will stay with my 
Jimmy. Jimmy won't let her get me. 

Jimmy — Don't worrj^ the golden braids av yer, Ilsie love. I gave 
her shtrate way out at the South side that isn't there at all, at all, 
and bedad, she'll hunt awhile before she finds that addriss, and whin 
she does, it'll be the wrong one. 

Elsie — (confidently) And Jimmy will \)x\y me a Christmas, won't 
you, Jimmy? 

Jimmy — Maybe, Ilsie love, a little one. 

Elsie — No, a big one, with a big, big tree. 

Caesar — Dar don't no trees grow in de city, Ailsie honey, not cut 
down ones. 

Elsie — They grow the stores in. Mine fader always did buy me 
one. 

LuiGi — Maybe we mighta, all togetta, buy a leedla one. I could 
de shoesa polish, and get some mon'. 

Caesar — An' I kin hold de gemman's bosses, 'n run arrantses. 



CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 

MicKY-^Let's all try hard and see if we can't get Elsie a little 
Christmas tree. 

' Elsie — I don't a little Christmas want. I wants a big Christmas 
and a big tret , like mine fader always did me get. 

Katie — But you see, Elsie, we're all poor folks, and— ■> 

Elsie — ^Jimmy will buy me a Christmas — a big Christmas, and a 
big tree. I know he will. 

Micky — Gee, Jimmy ! It's up to you, all right. 

Mr. Opperman — {entering) Vot vos up to Chimmy? 

Caesar — Ter cunjur up a big Christmas tree fo' Ailsie. She done 
boun' ter have one. 

Elsie — Mine fader did get me one always, Mr. Opperman. 

Opperman — Veil, veil, ve never did yet have van Christmas here 
yet a'retty, but meppe ve might half von leedle von, if ve all chip 
in togedder. Be patient a'retty, mine leedle fraulein, and ve'U see 
vot ve'll see ! 

Elsie — But I don't want one little tree, I want one big one like 
mine fader always did me get. Jimmy will buy me one. I know he 
will. I'm Jimm3''s little sister. He did buy for me these hair rib- 
bons of the blue color. 

Caesar^ — You'll half ter do it, Jimmy, whedder or no, as de 
preachah say. 

Elsie — You know, Mr. Opperman. You one German was, too. 
You know the German kinder do always one big Christmas tree 
have. Mustn't I have one? 

Opperman- — Veil, veil, leedle Madchen, I vos sure von Cherman, 
but I vos von Cherman Chew arett}^ Der Chews no Christmas do 
keep, nor drees. 

Elsie — {beginning to cry) I must have one big Christmas tree. 
I must. And no one wants me my tree to have but Jimmy. 

Jimmy — There, there, Ilsie, don't spoil the swate eyes av yez wid 
cryin', ans we'll think up a way somehow. {Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs. 
Ferrari, Mrs. Omstrom, and Mrs. Washington come out and seat 
themselves on the steps.) 

Chloe — {taking Elsie into her lap) What dey bin a doin' to 
mammy Chloe's li'l white lambie? 

Bridget — Which av ye spalpeens hov bin afther makin' the wee 
colleen wape, now ? Be shame to yez, who iver yez are ! 

Elsie — They don't want me my Christmas to have a'retty. 

Bridget — And who's bin afther puttin' Christmas into the hid av 
her? You, Jim, I'll bet a sixpince. Yez do spile the choild, most 
awful. 



CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 

Jimmy — 'Twasn't me, nather. 'Twas a foine leddy who wanted 
to adopt her, av yez plaze, or av yez don't plaze, either. 

Chloe — 'Dopt her? Den she'd be qualit}^ like she ottah be, but 
ole mammy Chloe would miss her li'l white miss}^ 

Bridget — Bedad, an' she can't have her, thin. She's the baby of 
all Murphy's tinement, and betwane us we'll get up a Christmas 
for her if she's thot set on it. I kin take in an ixtry wash or two, 
mebbe. Sure me own little spalpeens have niver had a Christmas 
yit, nor Jimsie, naythur. 

Jimmy — I don't need any, Aunt Bridget, but Elsie wants one that 
bad, she can't same to do widout it. 

Elsie — Mine fader did always one tree for me get. 

Carlotta — How mucha one tree he costa? 

Opperman — Ve von leedle von could get vor — led me see — 

Elsie — I don't one little one want. I want one big one. 

Chloe — Shuah you do, ma honey. Like de quality allers has, 
a-settin' in de pariah, an' a-reachin' clar up to de high ceilin', wid 
candles a-twinklin' an' pretty tings a-shinin'. Mammy's seen 'em, 
in de Souf. If we was dah, now! Dey grows dah, an' Pompey 
could go out wid his axe an' cut one down fo' his li'l Missy. 

'Elsie— {very eager) Yes, Mammy Chloe, that just what I want! 
Just like the tree I always did have every Christmas. 

Carlotta — But where we so mucha mon' getta? 

Hilda — They haff the so large trees the churches in. What 
bane they do with them after? 

Opperman — Dot vos so ! Dot Svede voman vos one pargin hunter 
a'retty. Dot tree be segond hand de day after de Christmas, and he 
gome cheap. 

Chloe — Mali Pompey he know dah sextant ob dat big chu'ch on 
Ellum Street, 'n ah reckon he'll git it mo'n cheap. Yo' shill hab 30' 
tree, Ailsie lamb. 

Tony — I wanta tree, too. 

Elsie — It will be one tree for everbody, a'retty. 

Bridget — So it shall. The entire communerty of inhabitints is 
invoited to be prisint at a gran Christmas party, with a tree, re- 
frishments and an intertainmint, in McCarthy's fore room the noight 
afther Christmas. 

Elsie — No, not the night after ; I want it the Christmas Day on. 

Bridget — And so it will be, bedad ! I hereby make the announce- 
mint that Christmas at McCarthy's will be the twinty-sixth of Dacim- 
ber this year, and thot's whin we'll have our grand hippodrbm}^ 

Mickey — Begorr}^, it's mither knows the grand worrds ! 



CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 

Carlotta — My Antonio, he giva da peanutta and da poppa, and 
da bambinos sewa it da stringa on. 

Hilda — I can sweetmeats make. 

Chloe — Ole Chloe know how make all de good tings — de crullahs 
an' cakes. 

Katie — Mither makes foine melasses candy. 

Bridget — Yis, 'n I know how to make a whole cirrcus of animiles, 
all av cooky dough. 

Opperman — Mine brudder he work a varm on. I git him zmn 
abbles me to send. I — I — I gif von prezent to efery laddy in der 
tinemint ! 

Chloe — Purty good foh an ole bach ! He, he ! Chloe knows how 
to mek a heap o' li'l knick-knacks out o' nuffin. I show yo' li'l gals 
how mek de nice Christmas gif. Yo' wait'n see. 

Jimmy — And everybody there must have somethin' fer Ilsie, fer 
'twas her got it up. Murphy's tinemint niver kipt Christmas before, 

Bridget — It's goin' ter do thot same this year, me bye. Remimber, 
at McCarthy's the avenin of the twinty-sixth, and ivery blissed sowl 
must do something for the grand vodyville intertainmint. 

Opperman — But vy your rooms, instead of dose room of mine? 
Mine der piggest is, und downstairs, a'retty, und you all vould 
velcome be. 

Bridget — Sure yours is the biggest, an' the most cluttered, I'd be 
thinkin.' Yez see, Mr. Opperman, yer one room is pretty well filled 
wid yer shtove an' yer bed, an' yer table, an' all your clutter, which 
a old bachelor niver doos pick up nor clane up, and me own fore 
room is large and nearly impty, wid the parlor set Oi'U be afther 
havin' some day shtill in the shtore, and it's the foine place for the 
parrty, nayther way up shtairs nor way down, an' it's there let it be. 

Chloe — (storting up) Dar's de whistle a-blowin', chillen. Pappy'U 
be hum ter he suppah in two shakes ob a lamb's tale. (All the 
women hurry in, and the children stand up, and zvave their hands 
and shout.) 

Micky — Three chairs fer Christmas at McCarthy's ! 

All — Rah, rah rah! (Run off in both directions.) 

CURTAIN. 



CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 



SCENE II. .. .^.. 

(McCarthy's "fore room," with "the tree" in th^ corner, ' To make 
the tree, take three old umbrellas— the skeletons only. They should 
he open. Plant the handle of the- first one in a tub of earth, 
strengthening it, and making it firmer, by four pieces of wire fastened 
to the ribs, coming down, obliquely, and anchoring firmly to the 
tub. A second umbrella is fastened to the first, the handle of this 
one running down by the central wire of the first, and the two 
zvired firmly together. A third one — and this should be one with 
a "crookhandle," hangs downward from the ceiling, fust above the 
second. Wire till all is firm and strong, but have the work crude. 
This "tree" is draped with green tissue paper, cut into leaves of 
every size and shape. Flowers and ornaments of bright tissue paper 
adorn it, and to every point is firmly fastened a piece of candle. 
The ornaments should be very simple — cut-out hearts^ stars, etc., 
paper chains, lanterns, and Jacob's ladders, etc. At the top is 
fastened a large star, covered with the silver foil that comes around 
compressed yeast cakes. This should have rays of broomstraws, 
also covered with the foil. There should be a great deal of orna- 
ment. Here and there are a few pieces of the gay- colored glass 
balls used for decorating Christmas trees. Strings of popcorn and 
cranberries also adorn the tree. Hovering over the top is a paper 
angel, and at the bottom is a penny picture of the' nativity. There 
should be a good many penny sticks of candy on the tree, and a few 
"oranges" of crepe or tissue paper. A large basket of apples stands 
near the tree, zvhile another basket and the floor around are heaped 
zvith "the prisints," in all sorts of rude bundles. Mr. and Mrs. 
McCarthy are alone in the room, giving the last touches to "the 
tree.") 

Bridget — Sure, and it's one grand evint for Murphy's tinemint ! 
Look at thot tree now, will yez ? Who but Jimmy wood iver have 
thought av it ! Sure the Baby's eyes were full av tears, and she 
shtamped the little fut av her, and she says, says she, "Khristhmas 
is the twint3-fifth av Dacimber, not the twinty-sixth," says she. 
Ivery buddy do be a saying so, and I won't have a second hand 
Christmas, Jimm}^, I won't. And little cud she know av the high 
cost of living. She wud have a big tree, and she would have it 
to-night. Bedad, if't had bin one av me own little spalpeens, I'd 
have given her a taste av me hand, where it wud do the most good, 
but ye can't spank an orphin, and I was that distracted I didn't know 
what to do, but Jimmy, he says, says he, pert as an eyster, "We'll 



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have it the roight night, Ilsie, if it'll bitter suit yez. And we won't 
have no second hand tree, nuther," says he. "We'll have a brand 
new, original kind't nobuddy niver had before." And Ilsie she 
stopped ,a wapin', and began to look interested." "And ye must 
promise me that ^^e're goin' 'ter loike it," he says, 'cause Jimmy's 
plannin' it all for his little sister, to make her happy. 

Sure and ivery one in the tinemint has brought a prisint for 
Ilsie, It's rich she'll be whin it's over, I do be a-thinkin'. 

Pat — She will that same. And begorry, it is a foine tree, and 
ivery choild in the tinemint will injye it, I do be a-thinkin. Arrah ! 
here they come! {Voices outside. Jimmy speaks up loudly.) 

Jimmy — No, no, now. No breakin' ranks. Kape in yer places, 
now, and no crowdin'. It's two and two ye're afther goin' in, as 
Noah's beasties wint inter the Ark. And Ilsie's a comin' first, 
cause if't hadn't bin fer Ilsie there wudn't a one of ye had a spick 
av a Christmas, no more than ye iver did afore. 

Elsie — I want to go in nozv, Jimm}^, I do. . 

Jimmy — Thin knock thray toimes on the dure wit' yer fairy wand, 
and if the little payple have all shcampered out av soight, the dure'll 
open. {Three knocks are heard, Pat szvings open the door, and all 
inarch in.) 

Children^ — Oh ! Ah ! It's the beautiful tree ! 

Jimmy — Merry Christmas, iverybody ! 

Children — {enthusiastically) Merry Christmas, iverybody! {The 
grozi^m people have follozjued the children into the room. There 
should he improvised seats of boxes, barrels, and hoards. They 
seat themselves, and look expectantly at Elsie.) 

{Elsie buries her face on Jimmy's shoulder and begins to cry.) 

Jimmy — Fhwat ails yez, Ilsie darlint? Tell Jimmy fhwat's the 
matter av ye ! 

Elsie — It — it is not one Christmas tree, aretty. It — it is not one 
tree at all. 

Jimmy — Sure it is. Don't yez see the green on the branches av it? 

Elsie — {looking up a minute) They is not no branches at all. 

Pat — Thin what be they ? 

Elsie — I don't know, but they no branches are, and that no tree is, 
whatever. 

Other Children — {indignantly) It's a foine tree! 

Elsie — It is not no tree at all ! Jimmy, 3^ou did said I should have 
one. 

Jimmy — And you said 5^ou wud loike it if Jimmy got it for yez, 
and now yez don't. Oh, Ilsie, pit! 

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CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S 

Katie — (kneeling by Elsie) Ilsie, darlint, poor Jimmy fales awful 
bad. Do yez want him to crry? 

Elsie — I do feel bad, too, Katie. He said I should have a Christ- 
mas tree, he did ! 

Katie — And he got ye one — a foine one ! "Sure," says he, "She's 
had German trees a lot av toimes, but she's niver had one av this 
koind, and bedad, Oi'll git it fer her, cost it what it will", says he; 
and he's done it, and now yez don't loike it ! That isn't a nice 
grateful little Ilsie at all. 

Elsie — Is it a tree, really Katie — one new kind, aretty? 

Katie — ^It is thot same, colleen Bawn. It's — it's — dear me, I dis- 
remember the name av it. 

Pati — It's a Poll3^glot tree, that's fhwat it is, and a rare koind, too. 
And to think she doosn't care fer thot same, whin Jimmy got it 
be purpose for her ! 

Elsie — I do like it, aretty. Jimmy, don't you cry once. It's a 
nice new kind of a tree, and I does like it. 

Jimmy — Thin thray cheers fer the grand Christmas tree! (all 
join.) 

Elsie — There candy is on it, and candles, and the angel flies over 
the top aretty. It is a nice tree, Jimmy. 

Tony — I wants candy. 

Carlotta — Not yet-a is the candy time-a. Mia bambino mus' 
wait-a. 

Bridget — Yis, furrst is the grand vodyville intertainmint by the 
inhabitints of Murphy's tinemint. Read off the names, Katy darlint. 

Katy — First is the spache av wilcome, by Patrick O'Rafferty Mc- 
Carthy. 

Patrick — Highly honored frinds and nayborrs. We are ga*thered 
here to-night — to-night, we are gathered here — to — to — • 

Bridget — (in a stage whisper) To celebrate. 

Patrick — Oh yis. To celebrate. We're gathered here to celebrate, 
(Scratches head.) We're gathered here to celebrate — and — and — 
we're doing av thot same. 

Bridget- — (zvhispers) It's a joyful' occasion. 

Patrick — Bedad, and it isn't thin. It's anything but a jyful oc- 
casion whin yez have a spache to make and can't remimber a worrd 
av it ! 'Twas Biddy and Katie wrote it, and begorry they'll have to 
say it, if it's said. The mate in the shell av it is this. We've got 
up this shindy fer the orphin in our midst, little Islie, bliss the blue 
eyes av her ! who belongs to ivery one av us, and fer our own little 
childher as well — the poor little spalpeens that we've chated out av 
a Christmas ivery year because we wasn't Carniggy's. We're a 

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holdin' it here in McCarthy's fore room, be the razin that it's the 
biggest room in the tinemint, with the ixciption of Opperman's, 
which he ginerously offered, but which was so cluttered 'twould 
have taxed the patience av a saint to thry to pick it up. So it's here, 
as yez see, and it's wilcome yez are, ivery one. Catholic and heretic, 
Jew, and Gintile, to hilp kape the birthday av one little Child, by 
making other childer happy. Wilcome to iverybod}^ Wilcome to 
the Christmas at McCarthy's, (sits dozvn.) 

(All, clapping mid stamping.) 

Foine! Great! (and so on.) (Every number on the program must 
be vociferously applauded.) 

Katie — Nixt is a recitation by Patsy McCarthy, Junior. 

Bridget — Shpake up, Patsy love, and do as well as ould Patsy did, 
now. 

Patsy — 

Bedad, Oi'm glad it's Christmas time. 

Oi'm glad we've got a tree. 
Oi'm glad that something on it hangs, 

Fer Ilsie and fer me ! Amen ! 

Katie — No, no, Patsy, the amen didn't belong there. 

Patsy — (running to his mother) Oil roight, Katie, you kin take 
it aff ! (Ail laugh.) 

Mr. Opperman^ — He von smart poy was, arett}^, vor j^ear old, 
ain't it? 

Bridget — Thank yez kindly, Mr. Opperman, he was that, jist loike 
the feyther av him. Oi always did say thot Pat wud have made a 
foine orayter if he'd had the iddycation fer thot same. 

Katie — Nixt is a song of Ital)^ in the original Eyetalian, by Mrs. 
Carlotta Ferrari. (Carlotta may sing any little Italian song, or a bit 
from one of the Italian operas.) 

Katie — Nixt is a rale darkey breakdown, as danced on the South- 
ern plantashins at Christmas time. Danced by Caesar Augustus 
Lincoln W^ashington. His dady will accompany him on the banjo, 
a rale truly Southern instermint, which he brung from Alabamy. 
(Pompey plays and Caesar dances, cuts '^pigeon zvings," etc., and 
ends up with an elaborate bow to the audience, then walks on his 
hands to his seat.) 

Katie — Nixt is a recitation by Miss Ilsie Strauss. 

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Elsje- 



The world was silent and starry and still. 

A bright star shone over Bethlehem's hill. 
A dear little Child in the manger lay, 
. And that was the very first Christmas Day. 

The wise men brought rich gifts of gold. 

We bring our gifts, as they did of old; 
And sing our carols, so glad and gay, 

The whole world is keeping the Christmas Day. 

Bridget^ — Bless the swate heart av her ! She remimbered thot 
from last year ! 

Elsie — I always did say it at my Christmas tree, and then I did 
mine h^nin sing. 

Mr. Opperman — Sing it now for us, aretty. (Elsie sings Martin 
Luther's cradle hymn, zvhich begins, ''Away in a Manger.") 

Katie — Nixt is a Christmas flag drill, as given at school, wid 
variations. Yez see, we do it at school wid the Shtars and Shtripes, 
but we made these Christmas flags at school and the tea'cher fixed 
the worruds over, and made the hull thing as Christmassy as ye 
plaze. And she said we'se moight kape the flags, av we loiked, so 
we did loike to do that same and here they be, thimsilves, {She 
goes out a minute and returns with the flags, zvhich she gives out 
to the children zvho are to take part in the drill. Half the flags 
are of red, half of Christmas green, each with a large gold star in 
the corner.) 

Katie — Give us all the room 3^ez can, now, and we'll do it as 
well as the space'll let us. 

Elsie — We cannot up and down the aisles march, Katie. 

Katie — Yis, ye can. Jist ye follow the laders, and we'll march 
up and down the imaginary aisles, as grand az ye plaze. Riddy, 
now. {All take places, the girls, in order -of size, behind Katie — 
the boys behind Jimmy.) This is the kay, now. Sound it. {All 
do so, and the march and song begin. "^Tune: "Wave, Old Glory." 
As they sing, they march up and down the "imaginary aisles.") 

SONG. 
We are happy little children, at the Christmas time, 

See us gaily marching, marching, while our voices chime. 
See the flag now wave before us, with its golden star, 

Telling of the Child once born in Bethlehem afar. 



^Furnished by the publishers of this book. Sheet music, price, 
twenty-five cents. 

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Chorus : 
Wave your banner, wave it gladly, sing in happy glee. 
Let the Christmas chimes re-echo over land and sea. 

Evergreen the Christmas story, never shall it die. 

Red the color bright of glory, streaming from the sky. 
Golden are the stars of Christmas in the heavens so high, 
. Glorious was the Star that shone afar in Syria's sky. 

Chorus : 
Wave your banner, wave it gladly, with its golden star, 
While the happy children's voices echo near and far. 

Let the Xhristmas joy and gladness in our hearts keep time. 
While the Christmas bells are pealing forth their merry chime. 

'Let us all pass on the blessing sent us from above. 

This the keynote of the day, the Christmas watch-word, "Love." 

Chorus : 
Wave your banners, wave them gladly while j^our voices chime. 
'Tis the golden time of year, the happy Christmas time. 

. (At close of song, go on -with the folloiving drill.) 

DRILL. 

Fig. 1. — Leaders meet, hold flags high, while others march under, 
and around, in two circles, twice. When they come the third time, 
they form in line behind others and raise flags, forming long arch. 
Back couple march down through it, and then up, outside it, to 
place, but do not raise flags this time. Next couple repeat this, till 
all have done so, and are in place once more. 

Fig. 2. — March backward till two lines are as far apart as space 
will permit, then march forward, flags waving, through opposite 
lines to other side, turn and repeat. 

Fig. 3. — March to form two circles, girls inside. Boys march com- 
pletely around them, then wind in and out around circle, then pass in 
and form circle inside. 

Fig. 4. — Girls repeat Fig. 3. 

Fig. 5. — Girls, now in inner circle, march around one way, boys 
the other. When they have gone around once this wa}^, they wind 
the "grand right and left," crossing flags with each one met; pass- 
ing to the right of the first one met, and to the left of the next 
one met. Continue thus around circle. 

Fig. 6. — Boys step back, making larger circle, girls step in between 
boys, making one large circle. March around once, flags waving, 

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then all face centre. All march in toward centre, flags held high 
and forward. When near enough to centre so that flags nearly touch 
in a high point, march around in a wheel, then back to places again. 

Fig. 7. — Boj^s form line, girls form line in front of them. Boys 
march around end of this line, and form line in front of girls. Girls 
do same. Continue as many times as space allows. 

Fig. 8. — Girls pass one way, boys the other, meet at back and march 
to centre in spiral, first a girl, then a boy. At centre, turn and un- 
wind spiral. 

Fig. 9. — Come down to front, all abreast, flags waving, and bow, 
waving flags with a wide sweep. 

Fig. 10. — March up in pairs, separate, pass to sides. 

Katie — Sure and we can't lade thim to their seats, for they haven't 
any, bedad, so we'll call the drill inded, and hope ye loiked it. 

Pat — Thot we did, Katie darlint. 'Twas foine. 

Bridget — Illigant ! 

Mr. Opperman. — It vos von britty zight, aretty. 

Chloe — And to tink dey-all larn dat in de school ! 

Carlotta — It is da poetry and da music and da rhythm, all in 
one-a. 

Lars — And zey bane {points as he counts) one, two, tree, four, 
fife nations. And all bane learning und singing like one. {It would 
be nice to have Lars count in Szvedish, if he can — the author can- 
not.) 

PoMPEY — But dey-all all like heah in de Nof. Black or white, 
all same as one. 

Bridget — They are that same, in this blissid counthry. Here's 
your little pickaninnies, and the little Swades, the Eyetalian childher 
and the Germans, and me own little Irish colleens, all aloike good 
frinds, and singing all togither the Christmas songs. 

Connie — We aren't Irish and Naygurs alid Swades and sich, 
mither, we're Americans, ivery wan av us. Tacher says so. 

Pat — And so yez are, God bliss yez, ivery one. Sing thot song ye 
larned in school — "My Own America, I Love but Thee.''* 

Mickey — That ain't a Christmas song, feyther. 

Pat — It's good enough fer Christmas or any other day in the 
year. Sing it. Pipe up, Katy gurl. {Katy does so, and they sing.) 

Mr. Opperman — {at' close of song) Dot vos von goot song, for 
certain. 



*This song is published by Paine Publishing Company. Sheet 
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JCatie — Nixt is a recitation by James Terence O'Neal. 

{Plenty of material for the children's recitations can be found 
in any Christmas collection. The ones referred to are in the little 
book, "Original Christmas Recitations/' by the author of this play, 
and zvill be sent for fifteen cents to any address, by the publishers 
of this play. Each child should deliver his recitation in the same 
brogue, or accent, he uses in the rest of the play. Of course, if 
any of the "pieces" are changed, the cojuments immediately after 
must he changed, also.) 

{Jimmy recites "Vice Versa-") 

Pat — No danger av yez iver goin' there, Jimsy bye, if turrkey's 
the only thing that takes yez. If it was porrk and praties, now — 

Jimmy — You and I'd both go, wouldn't we, Uncle Pat? 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Master Antonio Ferarri, Junior. 

Tony — 

" 'Fi's a leetla orphan, wif no share in the Kissmiss joy, 
I'd jus' dopt ole Santa Clausa, and be hees leetla boy." 

Mr. Opperman — A goot chooze, dot vould be, aretty. 

Elsie — I wouldn't. I'd 'dopt hiy Jimmy, and his little sister be. 

Jimmy — Just like 3'^ou did, Ilsie darlint. 

Katie — Nixt is a rale plantation song by the Washington famerly, 
the hull four av thim. 

Chloe — Yo ottah call it a quahtette, honey. Dat's de stylish name. 
{Pompey plays his banjo, and they all sing. Any of the old South- 
ern Darkey songs zvill do — not the ragtime coon song of to-day.) 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by our esteemed frind and fellow 
bachelor, Mr. Fritz Opperman. 

Mr. Opperman — Bud I don't vos knew any Gristmas biece, aretty. 
I voz von Jew, you see, Miss Kadie. 

Katie — But yez kin say some dandy ones. Niver moind the 
Christmas part, Mr. Opperman. Jist spale off a funny one. {Mr. 
Opperman recites any comic poem in Dutch dialect.) 

Mr. Opperman — Now id vos other poddv's durn, aretty yet. 

Katie— Yis, it's Mickey's. Masther Saint" Michael McCarthy will 
now spake a ricitation. {Mickey recites "Santa's Mistake.") 

Bridget — {at close) Sure, an' I haven't thin, Mickey, b^^e. Oi'd be 
proud to have a dozin as foine ones as me own three are, and if 
the ould Saint laves me anither Oi'll kape me eves on j^e'z, Oi will 
thot. 

Mickey — (looking over Katie's shoulder) Nixt Luigi will play 
us a chune on his fiddle. 

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Katie: — (pushing him) Be off wid yez ! Is that a pretty way to 
say it, now? Nixt, is a violin doit, by the great Italian musishin — 
Misther Antonio Ferrari, and his son Masther Luigi ditto. 

LuiGi — Ditto not my name-a. (Antonio and Luigi play, Luigi 
playing second part, preferably something distinctly Italian. If de- 
sired, Carlotta and Bianca may sing, in Italian.) 

Pat — I doos loike a good fiddle chune. 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Thelma Omstrom. (Thelma 
recites "The Birdie's Tree.") 

Mr. Opperman — Dot von goot ting to do vos, aretty. 

Hilda — We always do so in Sweden. The birrds their Chrissmas 
haff as well as the little ones. 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Constantia Erin McCarthy. 
(Connie recites "Baby's Shopping.") 

Pat — The littel spalpeen. If thot wasn't a good joke now! 

Katie — Nixt is an ould Latin hj^mn, as sung in the Catholic 
churches, by Mrs. Bridget Maloney McCarthy, who was once a 
soloist in the church in Kerry. (Bridget sings "Adcste Fidelis," 
or some other old Christmas hymn. If preferred, she may sing in 
English, but the old Latin hymns are very beautiful.) 

Pat — Sure, and Oi heard her a singing thot same hj^mn one 
Christmas in ould Oirland. Oi'd been to say me mither's ant, in 
Kerry, and was a going home the nixt da}^ But I didn't. "Be- 
gorry, thot's the vice, fer me," says I, and I stayed and coorted the 
singer. 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Bianca Ferrari. (Bianca 
recites "What They Found.") 

Lars^ — Take a warning, you Luigi boy, and don't bane tease 3^our 
sister any more. 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Cleopatry Harriet Beecher 
Stowe Washington. 

Cleopatra — 'Twarn't no resh'tashing. 'Twar a song — a lullerby. 

Katie — Shure and it was thot same. Ixcuse me, Cleo. 

Cleopatra — Whah's my pick-a-ninny, Mammy? (Mammy takes 
from a capacious pocket a rag doll rolled up from an old black 
stocking, zviih features sewed on, and a cap and long dress of 
white.) 

Chloe — Heah she am, honey chile. Sing her to sleep now. 
(Cleopatra may sing any darkey lullaby.) 

Hilda — A sweet little song, and nicely singed. 

Katie — Nixt is a ricitation by Carl Omstrom. (Carl recites "A 
Ten Cent Christmas.") 

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Lars — (at close of recitation) And I did bin^ effery one of tern 
for some one here. I bane had a real dime. 

Katie — And now, as Mr. Lars Omstrom and Mrs. Hilda Omstrom 
have begged to be ixcused, we will ind this programme by a good 
rousing Christmas carol, sung by iverbuddy. 

Jimmy — No, yez don't. Miss Katherine McCarthy hasn't done her 
share yit. 

Katie — Yis I did, Jimmy. I read the programme. 

Micky — No go. Ye've got ter sing, Katie. 

Katie — But I- wasn't ixpicting to do that same, and — 

Pat — Niver moind the appollygies. Give 'em "Rory 0-More," 
Katy love. (Katy sings "Rory O'More," or any preferred Irish 
song.) 

Katie — And now fer the grand final choris ! Iverrybuddy sing. 
(All sing any chosen Christmas Carol, old or nezv. At the end, Mr. 
Strauss, Elsie's father, zvalks in.) 

Mr. Strauss — A vine ghorus, dot ! Dey dold me I should mine 
leetle Elsie find here. 

Elsie — (springing into his arms) Mine fader! Oh, mine fader! 
How did you yourselluf find, aretty? 

Mr. Strauss — Mine own leedle von ! Und your mutter is died, 
dey zay. 

Elsie — Ya, and you did lost yourselluf, and — 

Mr. Strauss — I vos not loss, I vos seeck, so long dime mine head 
mitout, and could not the American talk remember. Mine uncle 
has died, Elsie, und I am a rich man, aretty. 

Elsie — I was a rich girl, too, mine fader. See the grand Christmas 
tree we have on that corner. It is mine tree. Jimmy got it for me. 

Mr. Strauss — I vill go and buy von big real tree aretty, mine 
Elsie, with candles and ornaments and gifts, and all these shall see. 

Elsie — I'd rather have this tree, mine fader. I do this tree like. 

Mr. Strauss — Den dis tree you shall have, mine Elsie, and New 
Years' Day we wall one big tree have, mine country blace out at, 
and all these shall come, who have mine Elsie bin goot to, aretty. 

Jimmy — Are you going to take Elsie away, sir? 

Elsie — I can't from Jimmy away go. Mine Jimmy must with us 
go, mine fader. I vos Jimmy's little sister. 

Mr. Opperman — It vos dot Chimmy dot did find her cr3ang the 
street in, and pring her here. 

Mr. Strauss — And you cared for her? You did not let her to 
the Orphan as3dum go? But you are poor people. How you do it? 

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Pat^ — Sure we did it betwane us, and nobody missed the bite 
and sup the wee colleen took. But she's the loight av all our eyes, 
sir, and we shall miss her sadl5^ Indade we shall. 

Mr. Strauss — She shall' come back. She often shall come. And 
all you who so kind have been shall come her to see. Ve never 
our friends shall forget, who cared for mine Elsie. 

Elsie — But Jimmy must go, mine fader. I will not without mine 
Jimmy go. 

Mr. Strauss — But his mudder, Elsie, she will not him let go. 

Elsie — / will let him go. he is mine Jimmy! And he has 
no mudder. 

Mr. Strauss — No mudder? How dot vos? Who dot poy belong 
to aretty? 

Bridget — He was my sister's bye, and as good a bye as iver walked 
on two ligs. 

Mr. Strauss — Let him come mine poy to be — mine Elsie's brodder. 
He shall von edugation have, and in mine pusiness be, by and by. 
Vill you mine poy be, Chimmy? 

Bridget — Sure and he will. It's not mesilf will stand in his loight, 
and he desarves all the good things he'll get. It's sorry we'll be to 
lose him and Ilsie too. Bedad she's the babby av the whole tinemint 
— but — Whisht there, Connie ! ye musfi't wape. There's the three 
to be loighted, and all the prisints and the candy and apples. All 
roise, now, and say Wilcome, and we'll be afther lighting thot three. 
(All rise, and shout heartily.) Welcome, welcome to Elsie's father! 
Rah! Rah! Rah! 

Elsie — I want the candles to light. Jimmy did say I might ! 
(Her father holds her up and she lights one or tzvo, to the accom- 
paniment of the children's "oh's" ! and "ah's" I as the curtain falls.) 

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